it's been a really long time since I posted on here, most of you prbably don't even know who I am or remember me at least.

So, topic.

I'm an English teacher living in the Czech Republic, I can speak at least token amounts of ten languages.

Recently I gave a lecture on Kenneth Hale, the most famous hyperpolygot (a person who can speak 6 or more languages fluently) to have lived. He was reported to be able to converse in 50 or more langugaes when he died.

so, here's what I'm interested to know. How many of you speak a second language, third, etc. Is there a Polygot (4 or more languages) or Hyperpolygot here on the Escapist? What langugaes do you speak?

There are many dying langugaes in this world and I hope that in the future I can try and keep at least one lesser known language survive a little longer.

Well, I used to be a Chinese (Mandarin) linguist in the army, and I can also speak German and understand Pennsylvania Dutch (a German dialect). I can understand and read Spanish, studied it for years but never had many opportunities to speak it so I'm comfortable speaking unless I have to.

In fact, I almost never have a reason to use languages other than English where I currently live and don't have anyone to practice with if even if I wanted to. I would love to improve, but it's such useless aspect of my life that it seems almost wasteful to spend time on studying when I'm so busy with my job and everything else.

That's the downside to living in an English-speaking place, there's really no need to speak another language.

I speak English and Swedish, I'm not sure which one I find more natural.I do most of my writing in English, most of my study material is in English, all the TV-series I watch are in English. Much of the advertisement I'm blasted with when I'm outside in Sweden is in English as well. I even think in English.

Italian, portoguese, german, english, and i understand spanish when spoken to me, so i think it may be 5 due to mutual intelligibility, but i'll go convervatively on 4, all at fluent level, altho german is rusty.

I can only speak english fluently but I took german at highschool so I know a little german, I've been thinking about carrying on my learning of german. I wish I could speak another language fluently but I can't it could help with the ladies.

But really I speak English. I took 2 years of French in high school and 2 years of Japanese after that, so by now for those languages all I really know is how to count to ten and basic greetings.

I also was enrolled in a Farsi language class as part of my military training, but it turns out Farsi is almost as stupidly constructed a language as English. Should've went with Arabic. I know the Farsi alphabet but the rest was gone from my mind about 2 weeks after I left the course, which was 28 weeks long, 8 hours a day.

Japanese was the only language I ever enjoyed learning and could pick up with relative ease, so I may attempt to learn it again if I ever am so inclined.

I can speak fluent French, English and Romanian, with some occasional funny errors in the latter because I rarely get the chance to speak it with other people than my parents. I also have basic proficiency in Spanish, enough to ask questions or answer them, along with a certain amount of vocabulary. I would certainly like to learn more, but I doubt I'll ever have the time to truly focus on it as I should.

I'm actually kind of a funny case. The first language I learnt to speak was Flemish. I grew up in Belgium, so that was the language people around me spoke. Apart from my father, he speaks Hebrew and English. So, seeing as I couldn't communicate with him, I was sent to an international school where I learnt English.

Now I speak English better than I do Flemish. Studying in England means I'm becoming rusty, and my stuttering is worse in Flemish, which doesn't help with my confidence, which makes the stuttering worst etc.

Still, I'm proficient in Flemish as my mothers side of the family speaks primarily that, so I guess that means I speak 2! :D

Im a typical stupid amerikan. I can only speak English fluently. I can hold a strained conversation in German and French. I know a handful of phrases in Spanish and I only know rudimentary Chinese and Japanese words.

I should know more, I know I should, its just not a high priority in the education system in the US.

Wait, does C++, HTML, and the like count? Cause that would up my total.

Swedish - Mother TongueEnglish - School and the internet (fluent)Spanish - From my father (fluent)Italian - From my mother (Moderate, I mix it up with Spanish due to being expose to both languages at the same time thus making distinction difficult)German - From my german friends (fluent)French - From the Uni + Time spent in Paris (Can read it without any problem but when spoken, makes no sense unless they speak reaaaaaaally slow)

We'll see how well it goes to improve my French. I have no one to talk to, so the only thing I can really improve is to read and write it.

I can also a bit spanish, as I'm forced to learn it, but I can barely understand anything spanish, thus I wouldn't count that as a language I know. I can easily read swedish and danish, as it is pretty much the same as norwegian, but I can't really speak the languages as those who has it as their mother tongues.I could also read some icelandic and german, as it is a bit similar to norwegian.

I'm natively bilingual, having learned two languages at various points during childhood.

Those being English & Dutch. However, while I can speak it fluently, my Dutch tends to be a bit rusty at times, since I almost never need it for anything.

I can also understand German almost perfectly, though it's still a bit of an effort to say anything. I'd probably speak it near fluently if I was in a situation where I needed to though, so there is that.

I've picked up bits of japanese... And in the past have studied Mandarin, Indonesian and French, but I can't remember much more than a word or two of those...

Japanese is probably near enough to being my 4th language, but there's still some way to go before I could even say I can ask basic questions in any meaningful sense.

I do like languages though. There's something about the way different languages work that gives you an insight into the culture that created them.

I speak English and Spanish, and my French is fairly decent, though definitely not fluent. English because that's what we speak in Ireland, and Spanish because I spent a large chunk of my childhood in Spain. :)

I'm a native English speaker, and I'd say I can speak English (fluently (obviously)), Italian and Korean (both enough to talk about myself and ask questions). I'm currently still learning Korean, hope to be fluent eventually, as I'll be living in Seoul for a fair few years.

Once I'm confident in my Korean, I'll go back to working on my Italian. Though I plan to pick up more languages in time. I'm thinking either Vietnamese, Russian, or Arabic, to begin with. However, Mandarin's warmed on me considerably over the past couple of years.